Authors of the 20th Century
Directly after the cease of the Second World War the public commenced to think that the world’s basic ethical foundations are understandable and justifiable . Both global politics and social relations were relying on the thoughts of progress , beneficial innovations , faith in science , enlightenment , progress , and the knowledge of how to ground any activity from a rational standpoint . Notwithstanding , beginning from the second half of the 60’s, the world began to change and now , 40 years after , we live in a transformed kind of existence .
We without any problems spot all changes which are brought to us by new technology, but we infrequently are aware of the fact that there are concrete concepts standing behind those solutions . The core of the upcoming change was initially tracked by those people, who more often than not lived ahead of their time – philosophers and authors. Among the numerous authors whose masterpieces have served for pleasure , there have been several of them who have given the humankind a new vision . They have better than others other authors created and worded authentic suggestions and have in the end created formed a fresh intelligent and perceptual analysis of the future. They have noted issues in the mundane of our lives and have unveiled a array of problems, which were existing without being spotted . They have aided us to realize the new problems , and sent us new hope .
These were the authors who have determined the minds of the entire generation, which has taken the blow of dramatic change; change, which was seen as chaos at the beginning of the 21 first century. They have made us focus our attention to the most problematic dilemmas of the last century; those dilemmas , which the people , having lived through the world wars and wild number of deaths, was reluctant to deal with . Lastly they were voicing the the most topical question “How will we live in the world of future?”
In this work we will specify some of the most well known writers of the last century. They have all much affected literature of their period, have offered tendencies and dilemmas which were typical to their people and the period they existed in, and have made the audience analyze the actual philosophy of values, having them understand that it is far from being ideal. One of the most interesting feature of their work is that in mostly they have awake the people interest in books and written works. In this aspect one of the most interesting success writings is that of a brilliant author Anne Bronte .
The achievement of Joan Rowling can be called unique as she has found herself to be the first author in the world to earn $1 billion by writing fairytales. She is currently spending a noticeable part of her profit on charity, fighting poverty and illness. The idea of the book was invented while she was on the train from Manchester to London. When the publisher has first decided to publish her book, she has awarded her 1500 pounds together with a loving advice — to look for a permanent job. He was incredulous of the fact that the young writer would be able to make a living off of writing. Joann has demonstrated the opposite - having produced a series of amazing fairytales, she has motivated the so-called non-reading generation get back to reading books.
This article cannot enumerate and more or less exactly list all writers who have offered their gift to the today’s literature. They have been writing and bringing ideas exactly into the minds of the millions, and therefore were influencing the future. Thus, as we can see, these writers were not writing for relaxation only, but they were also playing a considerable part in shaping the culture and the vision of a civilization of the 20th century.